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6th Annual Jazz Concert

In Memory of Stan Michels

The Sixth Annual Jazz Concert in memory of the late Councilmember Stan Michels will be held this week.

The Sixth Annual Jazz Concert in memory of the late Councilmember Stan Michels will be held this Sunday, August 3rd in Fort Tryon Park from 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

The concert, which features local jazz artist Marjorie Eliot and her ensemble, is sponsored by NYC Parks, the Fort Tryon Park Trust and the Michels family. Free and open to the public, it will be held on the promenade named in Michels’ honor adjacent to the Heather Garden, near the entrance to the park at the end of Fort Washington Avenue north of West 190th Street.

In case of rain, the event will be held in the Castle Village community broom, 110 Cabrini Boulevard., north of West 181st Street.

Michels, a lifelong resident of Washington Heights-Inwood, represented parts of north Manhattan in the City Council for 24 years from 1978-2001. A full-time Councilmember, he was re-elected six times and served as chair of the Manhattan delegation and of the Committee on Environmental Protection.

Elected as “the tenants’ lawyer,” Michels and his staff assisted tenants free of charge in Housing Court to ensure that they obtained essential services and needed repairs. He secured tens of millions of dollars in the city budget to build new schools and additions, rehabilitate parks and libraries, and support various community-based programs. He was the author of Local Law 1 of 1982, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act, and led the fight for the passage of the Clean Indoor Air Act of 1988, the original law restricting smoking in public places in the city. He worked to protect the city’s watershed and to expand the recycling program.

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